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A PT Boat is smaller than an Aircraft Carrier but bigger than a canoe.
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Could these type of boats be effective against todays warships?
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I think the concept would still be very effective in these days. a fleet of these with about 4 sailors, 8 marines and 1 or 2 gattling guns, patrolling and gaurding commercial shipping routes from pirates. Operating with info from a single or 2 seperate command/intelligence/supply ship. Abble to roam around freely, engage and pursue right up to the coast, with great range and speed. Come and get it, time of conventional army against army is practically over. You need to be fast and agile, hit hard and able to react on an instance these days.
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pt-3 an experimental pt boat sits in a new jersey boat yard in poor condition no idea who owns it
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When I was in high school a friends dad had a real PT boat that didn't run but we use to go drink beer on it and relive the war
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I finally know how the torpedoes were actually fired from the tubes.
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In all of my years in the Navy 1964-1995. I do believe everyone who served at sea, would have preferred either a PT boat, or a Tin Can...Destroyer. Those two ships will forever be THE REAL NAVY that tests, and separated the men from the boys. My apologies to any females of Today's navy. But you'd have to feel it in person to understand it.
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Which was the German boat at 28:22? I understand F- lighter, or am I wrong?
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The pt boats burning at 43:00, what a sad scene...
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Watching the burning of the boats always makes me sick.
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JFK is a great skipper; one of those he torpedoed is the USS Marilyn...."BA DA BING!"
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man your battle stations
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The PTs weren't as effective as we'd have liked-not S-boats by an stretch of the imagination.Their greatest service late in the war was confusion in night action. The Japanese southern Force at the Battle of Leytewas thoroughly flummoxed by swarms of Pt boats, backed by submarines. By the time they got sorted out, they were under the guns of the7th Fleet's old battleships.
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The Mosquito Fleet. Sentinels of the Sea. The Navy experience for my own Dad in WWII began in subs but he discovered at New London on his first dive that he suffered from claustrophobia. Who knew? Upon learning that the PTs were the only other branch of the USN offering extra-hazardous duty pay, he signed up for the school in Melville, RI and was always very proud of having served. They were, pound for pound, the most heavily armed craft of the armed forces, swooping in at 41 knots under cover of darkness to bust barges, deter destroyers and wreak mayhem on enemy forces.
10 boats all the same, moored in a deep cove mountains all around the dock,except entrance.
every morning they had to start the engines ,(it must have been a great sound there exhausts)?
each boat,starting from boat #1, would crank up and bring throttles to warm up RPM, all engines BUT one at a time along the whole fleet till all were up and running ,one after the other in syncronization! the sound echoing off the mountain sides.
Darn that story from him made my hair stand up!
but he said if it was a battle attack, he said engines ice cold, full throttle, would start and run out to sea in any order!
he said that was exciting,if not dangerous,hell they didnt care anyway!